The Quivering Pen

Just now I can feel that little quivering of the pen which has always foreshadowed the happy delivery of a good book. --Emile Zola

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Showing posts with label Edith Wharton. Show all posts

Friday, January 3, 2020

My Year of Reading: Every Book I Read in 2019

111. Three slashes, like a prisoner scratching the number of days in his prison cell; in my case, however, I was liberated by the on...

Thursday, October 31, 2019

A Ghost of an Autumn

Here in western Montana, climate change robbed us of our Fall. An early snowstorm on September 29 left us punched and reeling from an ...

Thursday, November 29, 2018

1,000 Books: Edward Abbey to Louisa May Alcott

I n this season of gratitude, I have 1,000 reasons to be thankful for James Mustich. As the co-founder of the legendary mail-order catal...

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Scary as Sheet: Ghost Stories For My Halloween

I live in a house that has good potential to breed ghosts. Built in 1920, the Craftsman home on a quiet tree-lined street in Butte, Mont...

Thursday, January 5, 2017

My Year of Reading: Every Book I Read in 2016

This Was the Year This was the year I killed it, reading-wise: 130 books , a new record since I started keeping track of my habits in...

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